Usually spatial planning problems involve a large number of decision makers with different backgrounds and interests. The process of Collaborative Spatial Decision Making (CSDM) has to reconcile the individual approaches and lead to solutions that satisfy all participants. In this paper we deal with a particular instance of CSDM that involves qualitative constraints. Qualitative CSDM is very im...

The approach to taking decisions on the management of land contamination has changed markedly over 30 years. Change has been rapid with policy makers and regulators, practitioners and researchers having to keep pace with new technologies, assessment criteria and diagnostic methods for their measurement, techniques for risk analysis and the frameworks that support decision-makers in their effort...

Pension trustees make surrogate decisions on behalf of scheme members. However, prior research has not explored how this might affect pension adequacy. Our results show that when setting targets for replacement income, project their own preferences instead reflecting member preferences. Furthermore, projection was more pronounced with lower financial literacy. Trustees choose significantly high...

Ethics education is now accepted as an important and integral part of programmes that lead to student’s registration as health professionals. Despite this, there is wide variation in philosophical and pedagogical approaches, resulting in mixed experiences for students who may be alienated by traditional methods and left unable to see the practical real world applicability of ethics to their fut...